My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

I don't follow the food trends.